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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Neeka complain?
(a) Her brother doing something to get in prison.
(b) The way her mother pays more attention to her brothers.
(c) Her mother making her come with them.
(d) Her noisy family.

2. Where did Tash play piano before going to prison?
(a) A local nightclub.
(b) In his school orchestra.
(c) For his school chorus.
(d) Church.

3. How does Randall resemble Tash?
(a) He is religious.
(b) He is calm and somber.
(c) He is an effeminate gay man.
(d) He is devious.

4. How does Tash's recklessness get him in trouble?
(a) He is easily led to crime.
(b) He gets in spats with the police.
(c) He falls in love with the wrong men.
(d) He loses his friends through it.

5. What does the narrator say is the loudest sound in the world?
(a) The soft sound of prison gates locking.
(b) The sound of the silence while waiting to be called in to see Tash.
(c) The sound of a mother crying for her imprisoned son.
(d) The sound of a grown man crying from abuse in prison.

6. What does the narrator say is the effect of Tash's music?
(a) It enlivened everyone.
(b) It made ladies cry.
(c) The lyrics bothered a lot of people.
(d) She does not mention Tash's music.

7. Where does the narrator go with Miss Irene one Saturday in the summer?
(a) To the amphiteater where she had such an emotional experience.
(b) To interview at a college.
(c) To see Neeka's father in a hospital.
(d) To visit Tash in prison.

8. Upon what does the narrator remark concerning the beautiful day?
(a) She can't wait for Tupac to get out of prison and experience such a beautiful day.
(b) She can't imagine seeing the day through prison bars.
(c) It is ironic that it is such a beautiful day considering where they are going.
(d) She hopes all Neeka's days will be this beautiful.

9. What quality does Neeka want to have?
(a) She does not say.
(b) Integrity.
(c) Sex appeal.
(d) Wisdom.

10. Of what is Tash convinced about Sly?
(a) That he is a racist.
(b) That he is corrupt.
(c) That he is gay.
(d) That he is wealthy.

11. What does Neeka want to do?
(a) Become a model.
(b) Become a law or math professor.
(c) Become an actress.
(d) Become a rapper like Tupac.

12. Where do the girls walk?
(a) The the cousin's neighbor's house.
(b) To the basement where the party is going on.
(c) To a large amphitheater in the park.
(d) To an ice cream store.

13. What does D ask one late night when she comes to the narrator's home?
(a) To sleep over.
(b) To have something to eat.
(c) To get advice from the narrator's mother.
(d) To borrow money.

14. What does Neeka say about Tash?
(a) He is scary.
(b) He would not hurt a fly.
(c) At least he is out of drugs in prison.
(d) He has a bad temper, but would not do any more than slap a person.

15. What does D vow after hearing the counselor?
(a) To find her birth father who would love her.
(b) To find her birth mother who would love her.
(c) To show the counselfor that she was tough.
(d) To be the perfect child.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long is Tupac sentenced?

2. Who is Flo?

3. To what point does the narration move forward in Chapter 10?

4. What does the narrator say about D's mother?

5. What do Sly and his friend testify?

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